Barry, Iris
Entry updated 23 December 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1895-1969) UK-born critic, film curator, poet and author, in US from 1930; she lived with Wyndham Lewis for several years from around the end of World War One until 1922, having two children with him. She was primarily a writer on film – D W Griffith: American Film Master (1940 chap) was published by the Museum of Modern Art in New York – and as the founder in 1935 and curator until her 1950 retirement of the MOMA Film Library was a significant figure in her field. In her Scientific Romance, The Last Enemy (1929; vt Here Is Thy Victory 1930), involuntary Immortality afflicts humans in the south of England, none of whom had asked for the "gift", nor were prepared to deal with its burden. [JC]
Iris Sylvia Symes Barry Crump
born Washwood Heath, near Birmingham, England: 1895
died Marseilles, France: 22 December 1969
works
- The Last Enemy (Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1929) [hb/uncredited]
- Here Is Thy Victory (London: Elkin Mathews and Marrot, 1930) [vt of above: hb/Gower Parks]
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